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Murphy Oil (MUR) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2026)

Murphy Oil filings provide 17 years of Return on Capital Employed readings, the most recent being 3.45% for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Capital Employed fell 343.0% to 3.45% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 3.45%, a 343.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 3.47%, down 340.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Capital Employed hit 3.45% in Q4 2025 for Murphy Oil, down from 3.66% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Capital Employed ranged from a high of 20.88% in Q1 2023 to a low of 11.16% in Q1 2021.
  • Median Return on Capital Employed over the past 5 years was 7.48% (2024), compared with a mean of 7.57%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Capital Employed: surged 1914bps in 2022 and later tumbled -1078bps in 2024.
  • Murphy Oil's Return on Capital Employed stood at 3.07% in 2021, then soared by 473bps to 17.61% in 2022, then plummeted by -34bps to 11.57% in 2023, then tumbled by -40bps to 6.89% in 2024, then crashed by -50bps to 3.45% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Capital Employed were 3.45% (Q4 2025), 3.66% (Q3 2025), and 5.61% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.